Awesome, yes, I am. (just for the record, this is a GNU tail option - where GNU tail is of course the default on Ubuntu).
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maxschlepzigOct 16 '11 at 15:51

You are right :-/ I did not noticed that Ubuntu in your question was only an example.
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andcozOct 16 '11 at 17:08

not a problem at all - I just commented for completeness (sometimes I just want to look what is POSIX and what is not). The question was indeed pretty much about Ubuntu.
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maxschlepzigOct 16 '11 at 18:22